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Eastern GÉANT2 Extension. Porta Optica Study Regional Workshop 11.10.2006 Kiev H. Döbbeling DANTE. The European dimension (1). 22 PoPs, ca 200 in-line sites 38,000 km leased services 15 different connectivity providers Juniper routers Alcatel 1678MCC switch, 640Gb/s, VCAT, LCAS, GFP
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Eastern GÉANT2 Extension Porta Optica Study Regional Workshop 11.10.2006 Kiev H. Döbbeling DANTE
The European dimension (1) 22 PoPs, ca 200 in-line sites 38,000 km leased services • 15 different connectivity providers • Juniper routers • Alcatel 1678MCC switch, 640Gb/s, VCAT, LCAS, GFP 12,000 km dark fibre with • 6 different fibre providers • GÉANT2 DWDM, • Alcatel optical platform 1626 LM, 10 Gb/s, engineered for 40 WL
The European dimension (2) GÉANT2 EC DG-INFSOM project Consortium of 30 (29+5) Nat’l R&E Networks Policy Committee, Executive Committee DANTE Ltd Project co-ordinator GÉANT2 customers are the NRENs Budget ca. 45 M€ per year ca 50% EC funding, 50% by NREN subscriptions
GEANT2 Consortium EuropeanCommission GN2 Contract DG INFSO(M) Framework Programme 6 Directorate F3 Research Infrastructure Communication NREN 1 NREN 2 NREN 3 NREN … Procurement NREN 28 European Tender NREN 29 NREN 30 Provider Contracts GN2 Technical Committee NREN Policy Committee 30+2 The Market telecom companies and equipment manufacturers Leaders of JRAs GN2 Executive Committee 5+6 DANTE TERENA
Organisational Challenges DANTE shareholders (15) are a subset of GN2 consortium Partners (30) Different national funding situations Justification for public funding Acceptable Use Policies and Commodity IP Cost sharing and Digital Inclusion
GÉANT2 Project Timeline 4 years, September 2004 – August 2008 Initial Tender 2004 Retender 2005 • transatlantic, Cyprus, Malta, PL, ES, EI CBF 2006 Planned Retender end 2006 • Routers, NOC, additional areas Foresight Study 2006-2007 JRAs Transition to Service in 2007
Global connectivity • Services within GÉANT2 • plus • ALICE • EUMEDCONNECT • TEIN2 • ORIENT • Two paradigms for e2e circuits • Open Exchanges (GLIF GOLE) • GÉANT2 cooperation between networks (reciprocity)
Services based on Cross Border Fibre • Drivers • Linking existing national infrastructure • Economy to the Project • Refinement of mesh • Dedicated project OPNs • MoU between NRENs and DANTE
Services Offered • Classical IP service • GÉANT2 IP transit and global uplinks • Access capacity 10s of Mb/s to 10 Gb/s • The building blocks for overlay networks • Optical private networks based on transmission wavelength (10 Gb/s) • Distance independent e2e wavelength pricing • VPNs based on GE or other capacity links • GÉANT+ service • 10Gb/s aggregate e2e capacity
eVLBI LHC experiments HEP, Life Sciences, Astronomy MUPBED, … EGEE, … ESA, …. DEISA, … Optical Private Networks for Scientific Disciplines European Projects Grid Initiatives Distributed Organisations High Performance Computing
Joint Research Activities / Services • Performance enhancement PERT • Multi-domain Monitoring perfSONAR • Roaming and AAI • Dynamic Multi-Domain Provisioning • Security • Test-bed, technology testing
Enlargement of a future GN3 Consortium ? • GÉANT2 included Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia • SEE* projects • Traditional relation between ACOnet and Ukraine • A single NREN entity • Digital Divide - Digital Inclusion is policy • Decisions in NREN Policy Committee • European Commission